January 2 in rail transport
- January 2 in rail transport
Events
19th century
* 1854 – Opening of the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway.
* 1882 – Building northward from San Diego, California Southern Railroad tracks reach Fallbrook, California. [cite book| author=Duke, Donald, and Kistler, Stan| title=Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California| year=1963| publisher=Golden West Books| location=San Marino, California| id=ISBN 0-87095-009-6| pages=p 27| ]
* 1893 – Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America. See Railroad chronometers
20th century
21st century
* 2002 – The Iowa Interstate Railroad operates its first unit coal train over the former Milwaukee Road mainline through Amana, Iowa.
Births
* 1826 – Algernon S. Buford, president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad (d. 1911).
* 1836 – Fred T. Perris, Chief Engineer of the California Southern Railroad (d. 1916). [cite book| author=Serpico, Philip C.| title=Santa Fé Route to the Pacific| year=1988| publisher=Omni Publications| Location=Palmdale, California| id=ISBN 0-88418-000-X| pages=pp 18-24| ] [cite web| author=City of Perris, California| url=http://www.cityofperris.org/history.asp| title=A Brief History of the Perris Valley| accessdate=2006-07-09| ]
* 1830 – Henry Morrison Flagler, visionary and builder of the Florida East Coast Railway (d. 1913).
Deaths
References
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